Why Life Transitions Shake Us More Than We Expect
22 Types of Emotional Support That May Help Sometimes the event itself is only the beginning. The relationship ends. The diagnosis arrives. The children leave home. The job disappears. A parent dies. At first, we think we are responding to what has happened. But often, something larger begins to stir. We may find ourselves asking questions that seem bigger than the event: Why do I feel so shaken? Who am I now? Why does this feel familiar? What am I supposed to do with the life that remains? This is the hidden work of transition. It is not only the practical adjustment to change, but the emotional and psychological reorganisation that follows. Life is rich with change. We go to school, leave home, move in and out of relationships, marry, divorce, have children, watch them leave home, lose people close to us, find jobs, leave jobs, relocate, receive diagnoses, have accidents. Some changes are expected and orderly. Others happen brutally, out of the blue. All of them change us. Some leave
